YXY News
April 2012 Avantium shortlisted for the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award
March 2012 Avantium and Danone sign development partnership for Next Generation bio-based plastic: PEF
January 2012 Rhodia and Avantium to jointly develop biobased polyamides
December 2011 Avantium and The Coca-Cola Company sign partnership agreement to develop next generation 100% plant based plastic: PEF
Interview Nieuwsuur met Managemen Team
December 2011 Avantium announces opening and start-up of its YXY Pilot Plant
November 2011 Promising results with YXY Diesel components in an ESC test
October 2011 Avantium again in the Global Cleantech 100
September 2011 Dutch Industrial companies and NGO’s sign manifesto for the biobased economy
August 2011 Jeff Kolstad joins Avantium as Chief Scientist to accelerate bioplastics development
July 2011 Solvay and Avantium to jointly develop green engineering plastics
June 2011 Avantium raises EUR 30 million to advance YXY technology
Juni 2011 Avantium sluit EUR 30 miljoen financiering af voor YXY technologie
April 2011 Avantium announces start-up of YXY polyester pilot plant
March 2011 BioPlastek 2011 Forum: Will Avantium's “PEF” Bottles Meet the Needs of Brand Owners?
Oct 2010 Avantium builds YXY pilot plant for green materials and fuels
Okt 2010 Avantium bouwt YXY testfabriek voor groene materialen en brandstoffen
Oct 2010 Avantium in Global Cleantech Top 100
Oct 2010 Avantium selected to speak at the Innovation Exchange Conference 2010
Oct 2010 Teijin Aramid and Avantium enter partnership to explore green high-performance polymers
Sep 2010 C&EN High-throughput biobased mol
Aug 2010 Engineering applications are bioplastics' holy grail
May 2010 Avantium launches YXY, the new green building block for materials and fuels
March 2010 Avantium appoints former Shell CTO, Jan van der Eijk to its Supervisory Board
Feb 2010 Avantium wins GPEC 2010 Clean Technology Business Award
July 2009 NatureWorks and Avantium to Collaborate on a New Generation of Biobased Polymers
Juni 2009 Avantium wins Amsterdam Inventor Award 2009
Jan 2009 Joint press release of Royal Cosun and Avantium
Oct 2007 Avantium steps ahead with its Biofuels program
July 2007 Avantium announces development activities for novel biofuels
Furanics: We have awoken a sleeping giant
Presentation given by Frank Roerink, CFO Avantium, on Going Green Conference, Boston, MA, USA
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